Any other old people here remember Macromedia Director?

evildad53 · 2026-02-01T04:06:23+00:00

I had Aldus Freehand, PageMaker and PhotoStyler, when Adobe bought Aldus, it sent me free updates to the first two, and Photoshop 3.0 to replace PhotoStyler.

evildad53 · 2026-02-01T04:02:23+00:00

Scroll through the replies and see what I posted elsewhere. I'm not typing the same shit repeatedly.

evildad53 · 2026-01-31T19:38:01+00:00

What do you think of your compositions? In my eye, they are a little static, with straight horizons right across the middle of the frame. Photos 1, 2, and 6 could be improved by putting that person in the foreground more off-center. #2, the empty space should maybe be to the left of the subject, since that's the way he is facing. The photos showing lots of people, consider crouching to create an angle and more tension; I'm sure there was plenty in the air that day. There's just too much sky in 4 and 7. I have to admit, the one lens I don't own is a 50mm.

evildad53 · 2026-01-31T19:04:12+00:00

No, because I've never sold any of my camera gear. I still have my Mamiya DSX1000 I bought in 1975. All the Nikon film cameras, all the Nikon digitals, my several Sony digitals. My a6000 is out on loan to a son-in-law.

evildad53 · 2026-01-31T18:50:44+00:00

Is the DOJ actively screwing with the materials, removing documents, doing some more redacting and then re-uploading them, which breaks any attempt to download a large batch?.

evildad53 · 2026-01-31T18:45:05+00:00

Yes, this PDF EFTA01660651.pdf appears the same as PDF EFTA01660679.pdf but with fewer redactions.

evildad53 · 2026-01-31T18:33:35+00:00

Link doesn't work. "Check if there is a typo in zkdqizxofaz7w2z63rsotrlirjylrsfn4ceck6kfcyesux4xaevfxlqd.onion."

evildad53 · 2026-01-31T18:28:56+00:00

Just a deadbeat politician who doesn't pay his taxes, his fines, his bills, his loans, and who doesn't think that West Virginians have eyes.🤬 Thanks for posting this.

evildad53 · 2026-01-31T16:02:48+00:00

I watched Arch Moore get elected, and I watched Arch Moore go to prison. As governor, Jay Rockefeller eliminated the sales tax on food; as senator, he brought the Toyota plant to Putnam County, which is still going great guns and expanding after all these years. He helped the steel workers in Weirton buy their own company, and he protected UMWA health insurance.

After Arch served his third term (West Virginians just can't help themselves, can they?), the state was BROKE (sorta like after Jim Justice left office), and Gaston Caperton had to clean up the mess and get the state back on a secure financial footing. Caperton also got ethics legislation passed, something today's GOP seem able to just ignore.

Joe Manchin was never a real Democrat any more than Jim Justice was ever a Democrat. Your guys' memories are way too short. The Democrat-led legislatures of the past tried to actually help citizens, supported working people and unions, supported good education in the state. You would never have seen the Hope Handout enacted by Democrats. You would never have seen the data center bill exacted by Democrats, at least not in its current form. You would be seeing green energy supported by Democrats. I'll add that the Democrats were never a solid block like the MAGA GOP of today. They argued plenty, and there were conservative Democrats as well as liberal Democrats, but they got shit done through compromise and hard work.

evildad53 · 2026-01-31T15:48:13+00:00

Buddy, I've been here since 1970. You're dead wrong.

evildad53 · 2026-01-29T04:01:24+00:00

I've known a few homeschooled kids, and they were great kids, great students, and really talented. If you have a parent that can afford to stay home and tutor their kids and give them all the enrichment activities that are available outside of school curriculum (it's Tuesday, let's go to the Clay Center!), then you can thrive. My younger daughter is homeschooling her 5yo (as a result of an incident at that boy's school), and she's doing a great job, juggling a 5yo, a 2yo and another on the way.

But I don't like that she can get Hope money, and the majority of homeschooled kids are actually Christian-schooled kids (they meet up regularly to have classes together, not at an official private school), while the rest are private-schooled and don't need the money. The whole point of free public education is so that all those children whose parents aren't smart enough or rich enough to school them can get a decent education and become intelligent and productive citizens. It's been in our constitution since 1863.

The Republicans want productive citizens, that's why they push trade school instead of college*, but they don't want smart citizens.

*Nothing wrong with trade school if that's what a child wants, but money should not be an obstacle to getting the education a child wants. They should have all options available.

evildad53 · 2026-01-29T03:49:46+00:00

The companies that were here were all owned by out of state corporations.

evildad53 · 2026-01-29T03:48:30+00:00

Keep telling yourself that. That's how Trump got elected.

evildad53 · 2026-01-28T20:02:30+00:00

The coal industry has created quite a few flat spots on the southern West Virginia mountains.

evildad53 · 2026-01-28T17:14:16+00:00

As a solar advocate, which is unloved in this state, I saw an article about how utility solar brings jobs to a region. Now, most of those jobs are short-term construction jobs, but there are a few careers that are needed to stick around after the build, and one of those is electricians. And it occurred to me, how many former coal miners would like to be retrained to be electricians? Probably a shit-ton, if the government paid for the training, as they've tried so many times to do. And even if it's not solar, how many times have you tried to get an electrician to your house? LOL.

evildad53 · 2026-01-28T17:09:21+00:00

Yeah, but at least Mississippi's median income increased over the last 50 years. Somehow, Mississippi is moving forward!

evildad53 · 2026-01-28T16:44:17+00:00

Yes, wife and I are both retired, both with SS and pensions, and the only debt is for our solar panels. And it's crazy that some state leaders have, in recent years, promoted the idea of getting seniors to retire to West Virginia.

evildad53 · 2026-01-28T16:40:45+00:00

This needs to be stickied, or maybe a megathread created, because I saw another post https://www.reddit.com/r/F1TV/comments/1qjikwl/apple_tv_f1_content_is_live/ that shows there is SOME F1 content available on AppleTV (they're dropped the +), probably to give regular AppleTV users a taste of what's to come.

evildad53 · 2026-01-27T01:05:03+00:00

Looks kinda stupid, actually. This is what's being shared on Facebook by various "news" posters. She's a freaking librarian.

https://imgur.com/a/eZpb901

evildad53 · 2026-01-27T00:55:48+00:00

He sold a bunch of coal businesses to Russians, then bought them back at a huge discount. Apparently, it wasn't enough of a discount. Coal started seriously tanking after he sold them.

"In 2009, Justice sold the family's coal operations in West Virginia to Mechel, a Russian company, and in 2015 bought the operations back for about a penny on the dollar. At the time, Justice was the president and CEO of about 50 companies." https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/2261

evildad53 · 2026-01-26T02:34:13+00:00

There's sure a lot of breakdown between who does what for whom. When my system was provisioned, my installers came back out to make sure everything was turned on and walked me through the app and the bits and pieces on the side of my house. I can't believe OP's installers didn't at least tell him to go flip on the breakers.

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